Obituary:
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Date: 03-May-2010
From: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani <fxr41yahoo.
co.
uk>
Dr.
Ali-Muhammad Haghshenas-Laari, the top...
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Obituary:
AliAliAliAli----Muhammad HaghshenasMuhammad HaghshenasMuhammad HaghshenasMuhammad Haghshenas----LaariLaariLaariLaari (1940-2010)
Date: 03-May-2010
From: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani <fxr41yahoo.
co.
uk>
Dr.
Ali-Muhammad Haghshenas-Laari, the top Iranian linguist, translator, lexicographer, and
literary critic, passed away on Friday, 30 April 2010 in Tehran.
Born at Jahrom, a city near Shiraz,
southern Iran, on 4 May 1940, he received his first academic degree in Persian literature from the
Advanced Teacher s College, Tehran.
Then he went to the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS) at the University of London, and received his PhD in 1971 on a study of Persian lexical stress
in the dialect of Tehran.
In London, he had the opportunity of teaching Persian, too.
Soon after finishing his studies, he
returned to Tehran in 1972.
Since his return to Tehran, he held the post of professorship of
linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, of the University of Tehran.
As
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